New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-07-06

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The new Board Of Electrical Control which
supersedos the Subway Commission has organ
ized and is ready for business. Now let the
commissioners show Themselves worthy OF
their extended term of odcial existence by
making sure that the wires are buried without
unnecessary delay ard in a thoroughly salts
factory manner
The Egyptian Convention has not been
ratified and Sir Henry DrummOnd Wolff has
been ordered to leave Constantinople. As
diplomatic negotiator he has not been con-
spcuous success The permanent English oc-
cupation Of Egypt is now made certain. and tho
responsibility therefor can be definitely placed.
Under the best Of conditions, however, the fut-
u,e of Egypt is far from bright.
The recently published letter of Brinski, who
claims to have been Grover Cleveland's sub
stitute in the army. receives confirmation
from the statement contained in dispatch fl ono
our Washington correspondent. The narrative
uuoted is circunstantial and therefore easy OF
confirmation or the reverse. The Presidents
friends cannot afford to leave the matter as it
stands. II Brinski be an impostor, it will DO
easy for them to show it.
Sharp's health is seemingly growing worse
every day, and unless there is an Improvement
soon he will hardly be able to go to court next
Wednesday to hear his sentence pronounced.
Yesterday he was compelled to keep his bed
and was scarcely able to eat. His condition, In
fact, was such that a consultation Of physicians
was held, but the result was not made known
beyond the announcement that he Is a livery
sick man. What effect his illness may have
upon his sentence or his chances of getting
now trial is of course uncertain.
Tho Interstate Commerce law has got into
the courts and a decision Of considerable I'M
portance has been rendered in Oregon. Ii
was held by the Commission in its recent de-
chion that railroads must decide for them
selves whether substantially similar circum-
stances and conditions" exist which justify
greater charges for short distances than for
lays down the sweeping doctrine that freight
carried to or from a competitive point is always
carried under substantially dssimilar circum-
stances and conditions from that carried TO
or from non-competitive points, If this de-
cision Is upheld. it viii to large Iextent
nullfy the attempt to do away with discrimina-
ton between long hauls and short hauls.
- :, ,,aor x.acSoc fbaf oots one 1eco ~ life and
property is not due to fireworks or the discharge
of firearms in connection with the celebration
Of July 4. This year the heaviest calamity has
fallen on Clarendon, Penn. which is practically
swept out of existence. There was no fire
apparatus in the town. and when the flames
once got under way nothing could stop them
except the giving out Of inaammable material
II Clarendon is ever rebuilt, in all probability
the storing or setting of of fireworks within
~ hnits will be strictly prohibited. That WIS